KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As Kansas State players stewed inside their quiet locker room, Frank Martin stood in a hallway in the Sprint Center and nursing a water bottle, swallowed hard following his 100th and perhaps toughest game as the ninth-ranked Wildcats' head coach. "I hurt today for the kids," he said. But the same hearts that ached following a 72-64 loss to top-ranked Kansas in the Big 12 tournament's championship game on Saturday are expected to mend on Sunday.

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